miscellaneous problems and questions
Hi folks: I am running into more difficulty compiling and building
the boot floppies. One question I have is it preferable to file a bug
report or indicate the problem first here? Filing a bug report is
certainly more involved but it lends itself to assurence of a
resolution. I don't really care how it's done, just that it's done.
The top level README states that you need only be root to do the make
release. I ran make check as myself and received some
errors/warnings, not exactly sure what they are and said it was
successful. It was not though and when I ran it as root it told me
what I was missing to build the package. Here is my output from make
check as myself:
sed: Unknown option to 's'
[ -d updates ] || mkdir -p updates
./check_mirror.sh /var/spool/ftp/pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386
checking packages needed in the root disk
checking packages needed in the base system
checking packages needed for kernel images
checking boot-floppies dependancies
sed: Unknown option to 's'
checking stuff in ./tools
check successful
When I was compiling the make release I ended up with an error stating
I should use newrelease. If this is going to happen, then shouldn't
the top level README advise the reader to run make newrelease for a
first time build?
Well, that didn't really solve any thing either because now I am
getting an error with it stopping because it doesn't have the correct
relative path to the tools directory. Here is the error lines from
the latest output:
dselect-beginner.html/ch-dselect-conclusion.en.html dselect-beginner.html/ch-dselect-glossary.en.html dselect-beginner.html/ch-dselect-intro.en.html dselect-beginner.html/ch-dselect-main.en.html dselect-beginner.html/dselect-beginner.en.html install.html/ch-administrivia.en.html install.html/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html install.html/ch-hardware-req.en.html install.html/ch-init-config.en.html install.html/ch-install-methods.en.html install.html/ch-partitioning.en.html install.html/ch-post-install.en.html install.html/ch-preparing.en.html install.html/ch-rescue-boot.en.html install.html/ch-welcome.en.html install.html/footnotes.en.html install.html/install.en.html /usr/src/boot-floppies/release/doc
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/boot-floppies/documentation'
MiniUnz 0.15, demo of zLib + Unz package written by Gilles Vollant
more info at http://wwww.winimage/zLibDll/unzip.htm
Cannot open ../tools/rawrite2.zip or ../tools/rawrite2.zip.zip
E: ./release.sh abort
make: *** [newrelease] Error 1
The two periods in ../tools above one I have added to try to get
around the problem. It seems that the relative paths are not getting
set correctly based on the directories the script is cd'ing into.
Kirk
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